Hospitals can take lead to find remedy to 'scalping cancer'

A NUMBER OF HOSPITALS in Beijing have said they intend to do more to try and put an end to the organized rings of scalpers that profit by snapping up the appointments with doctors and then selling them to genuine patients.

Beijing Tongren Hospital says it will offer unlimited registration tickets in some clinics and extend the clinic hours of specialists, while Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital is also launching a campaign against the hospital scalpers. That determination is important but we need more actions, comments Beijing Youth Daily:

Scalpers have become a growing cancer in the country's healthcare system and a disease that the authorities have failed to effectively treat. Faced with tremendous harm and abnormally stubborn swindlers, hospitals in Beijing seem to have decided to take action.